search for keywords in topics, how?
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search for keywords in topics, how?
See also Official Gripe and Just an idea for anyone interested.
Before I pose a question here, I want to know what has been posted on any topic anywhere surrounding "sending" "emails" using "vba".
I enter Advanced Search.
(1) Search for keywords: email vba*
I used the asterisk as a wildcard because my understanding is that search terms must be 4 characters or more.
(2) Search for author: none selected, that is, all authors
(3) Search Forums: none selected, that is, “all forums”
(4) Search sub forums: Yes.
(5) Search within: Topic Titles only
I reasoned that topic titles ought to give me enough fodder for a finer-tuned search. A topic “beetroot leaves for salad” with a cute vba function to send emails is unlikely to get to the heart of the matter.
(6) Display results as: Topics.
Topics should give me a paste-able set of links for further research.
(7) I choose “Search” and am told that vba* was ignored. I am missing some step here, but what?
I really want something even finer – for example “How to send emails through Google Mail from either Word/VBA or Excel/VBA, or even Access/VBA”, but for now would be happy to read at the “email vba” level to see which authors seem to be on the ball. I might then fine-tune my search by author.
But right now I would like to resolve this Short Keyword hurdle.
Thanks
Chris
Before I pose a question here, I want to know what has been posted on any topic anywhere surrounding "sending" "emails" using "vba".
I enter Advanced Search.
(1) Search for keywords: email vba*
I used the asterisk as a wildcard because my understanding is that search terms must be 4 characters or more.
(2) Search for author: none selected, that is, all authors
(3) Search Forums: none selected, that is, “all forums”
(4) Search sub forums: Yes.
(5) Search within: Topic Titles only
I reasoned that topic titles ought to give me enough fodder for a finer-tuned search. A topic “beetroot leaves for salad” with a cute vba function to send emails is unlikely to get to the heart of the matter.
(6) Display results as: Topics.
Topics should give me a paste-able set of links for further research.
(7) I choose “Search” and am told that vba* was ignored. I am missing some step here, but what?
I really want something even finer – for example “How to send emails through Google Mail from either Word/VBA or Excel/VBA, or even Access/VBA”, but for now would be happy to read at the “email vba” level to see which authors seem to be on the ball. I might then fine-tune my search by author.
But right now I would like to resolve this Short Keyword hurdle.
Thanks
Chris
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
Hi Chris, we hope to solve this soon. Stay tuned.
Best wishes,
Hans
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
You mean its the software? Not me?
Thanks
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
I found a setting that we can change at the server level.
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Hans
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
Exciting, knobs and switches.
And if the server then slows down we know that someone is doing a lot of three-letter-word-searches.
And then someone will ask for two letter words, as, oh I don't know, say NL.
And if the server then slows down we know that someone is doing a lot of three-letter-word-searches.
And then someone will ask for two letter words, as, oh I don't know, say NL.
Byelingual When you speak two languages but start losing vocabulary in both of them.
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
At least I have graduated from four-letter searches.
Oh no! Hang about. I was cautioned about using four-panels of smileys ,,,
Cheers
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
The Dutch equivalents of "four-letter words" are all "three-letter words"...
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Hans
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
You can now search for words of three or more characters.
Best wishes,
Hans
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
Can, and Have! Thanks Hans. For a minute or two I thought my mind was going. Again. Now I know it is Going again!
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The results are as good as I had hoped: A precise summary that can be copy/pasted and used as the launchpad for deeper searches.
Thanks again
Chris
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
Byelingual When you speak two languages but start losing vocabulary in both of them.
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
Yes, but was it really necessary to use three weird characters as example?
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Hans
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
I had a lot of trouble trying to find saner characters.
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
Btw I didn't want to be countryist in my random choice of characters. I apologise to inhabitants of Sweden, UK, USA, South Africa or of any other country who may feel slighted by exclusion from the character list.
We really are a diverse group of characters!
We really are a diverse group of characters!
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
Now a search for FOUR characters doesn't work!
I just tried with a search for "Argus ChrisGreaves GeoffW HansV"
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Chris
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
If you look closely, we are sometimes cymbolic
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
No, I tell a lie.
It does work!
Cheers
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Re: search for keywords in topics, how?
You laugh, Stuart, but researching these anomalies(1) could take the rest of my life ... Cheers
Chris
(1) Operative syllable "lies"
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